Word: eyewash
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...dinner in Washington March 29. Many a pundit thought this was just the kind of rebuke which might bring Truman out as a fighting candidate. No matter how the President reacted, the New Hampshire voters had proved he was wrong when he scoffed at the primary as just "eyewash." Or, if it was eyewash, Harry Truman was up to his eyeballs...
When President Truman called the Presidential primary system "eyewash," he was facing facts as well as inviting brickbats. For primaries are too diluted to give voters a real voice in selecting Presidential nominees, and their results often distort the nation's Presidential preferences...
When an impulsive Democrat entered Harry Truman's name in the New Hampshire presidential primary without consulting the White House. Truman gruffly announced that he would withdraw it. All these primaries are just eyewash and don't mean a thing when the national conventions meet, he huffed. Last week, just five days after he made that statement, Truman did a full back flip and plunged into the eyewash...
Racketeers & Stalin. This week the Tennessee Senator demonstrated that the President hadn't scared the boldness out of him. He stood up before a New Hampshire audience and allowed dryly that he considers the primary good democracy, not "eyewash." Then he took a swing at Harry Truman's foreign policy. Said he: "For a long time now, it has seemed to me, we have based our foreign policy substantially on what Russia might or might not do. Just as we in the United States do not gauge our domestic policies on the whims of racketeers, so we should...
...week's end, after an investigation, ECA concluded that all such charges were eyewash. Said ECA: "The British didn't meet the specifications, that...